Legal Opinion
Svetlana Galina and Viatcheslav Galin v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 22, 2000No. 99-3836PublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Svetlana Galina and her husband have been ordered deported to Latvia. Although the Board of Immigration Appeals found that she had been persecuted in Latvia, from which the couple fled to the United States in 1994, the Board denied them application for asylum on the ground that she can have no reasonable fear of persecution if she is returned to Latvia because conditions there have changed for the better since 1994. For this conclusion the Board relied entirely on statements of which it took administrative notice that are contained in the U.S. State Department’s 1998…
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3Cited by108 opinions
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